ELAINE was presented with the Teacher of the Year by fellow Scot Gordon Ramsay at the glitzy London bash.

SCOTS Pride of Britain winner Elaine Wyllie grabbed so many star selfies at the ceremony she missed her bus.

Elaine, 59, was named Teacher of the Year at the glittering ceremony in London on Monday. But she also walked off with another prize – her host of A-list mementos.

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Source: The Independant
Date: 29-Sept-2015

A Scottish head teacher has walked away from the Pride of Britain Awards with the Teacher of the Year accolade after spearheading a simple yet effective initiative – of making her pupils run a mile every day.

Elaine Wylie, from St Ninians Primary School in Stirling, began the Daily Mile program four years ago after learning that the young students were struggling during warm-up exercises before PE class. When she requested a group run around the field, many could barely run a lap.

Thus the Daily Mile program came to life. Having now been adopted by 20 other schools within the Stirling area, her entire school – from nursery to P7 – run or walk a mile each day, or 15 minutes, around the school’s track, affectionately known as The Yellow Brick Road.

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Source: The Times
Date: 29-Sept-2015

A head teacher fighting the obesity epidemic by getting pupils to run a mile a day is determined to spread her scheme throughout Britain despite her imminent retirement.

For three-and-a-half years Elaine Wyllie has ensured that all students at St Ninian’s primary school in Stirling take part in the exercise routine. The children do not change out of their uniforms to run or walk and only ice or heavy rain will stop them. Not one of the pupils at the school is obese.

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Source: Mail Online
Date: 29-Sept-2015

• St Ninians school in Stirling, Scotland, has run the scheme for three years
• Researchers are deciding if the scheme should be adopted across the UK
• One in 10 children are obese when they start school, aged four or five
• Dozens of other primaries across Britain have already adopted the scheme

A primary school is making all children run a ‘daily mile’ in a bid to improve their fitness and focus their minds.

Teachers have sent pupils out every day to walk or run a mile for the last three years, and claims none is overweight as a result.

Researchers from Stirling University are undertaking a study of St Ninians in the city to determine whether the daily mile should be adopted nationwide.

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Source: NetMums.com
Date: 29-Sep-2015

A primary school where children are made to run a mile every day has proved so successful in tackling obesity it could soon be introduced nationwide.

The ‘daily mile’ has been so successful that there is now a call for it to be introduced in ALL UK schools.

With experts warning of an obesity epidemic, more and more schools are adopting a ‘daily mile’ plan for their pupils.

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Source: The Guardian
Date: 28-Sept-2015

The ‘daily mile’ completed by primary pupils in Stirling is said to aid concentration as well as fitness. Other schools across the UK are taking notice

As soon as the children at one primary school in Stirling hear the words “daily mile”, they down their pencils and head out of the classroom to start running laps around the school field.

For three-and-a-half years, all pupils at St Ninians primary have walked or run a mile each day. They do so at random times during the day, apparently happily, and despite the rise in childhood obesity across the UK, none of the children at the school are overweight.

The daily mile has done so much to improve these children’s fitness, behaviour and concentration in lessons that scores of nursery and primary schools across Britain are following suit and getting pupils to get up from their desks and take 15 minutes to walk or run round the school or local park.

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Britain is in the grip of a childhood obesity crisis, with more than a third overweight by the time they leave primary school, according to latest NHS figures.

But in one primary school in Stirling, a head teacher has launched an extraordinary fightback, with a brilliantly simple idea that has transformed the lives of her pupils.

After hearing that children were exhausted by just the warm-up before their weekly PE lesson at St Ninian’s Primary, Teacher of the Year Elaine Wyllie decided to take action, starting with a fitness test.

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These delighted faces tell their own story, as the pupils at Sgoil a Bhac seem to throughly enjoy doing the daily mile. Below even the little ones at the Croileagan have a go, although they do not do as much as a mile.

A mile in 15 minutes – could you do it? Well pupils at Isles’ schools are setting the pace by committing to walking or running a mile each day.

The results of this exercise boost speak for themselves as the English Primary 6/7 class at Sgoil a Bhac in Lewis described how the initiative was a ‘good idea’.

All 105 pupils at the school take part and are already improving their fitness levels just weeks into the new routine.

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